US may ban TikTok

hover11 · Postby **hover11** » January 19th, 2025, 6:08 am

Unemployed people on their knees seeing this message

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Les Bain · Postby **Les Bain** » January 19th, 2025, 9:53 am

I'll forgo the reasons why I don't care for tiktok but what I've understood from Twitter, Reddit and some YouTube commentary channels is that tiktok:

1. Didn't suppress stories like mainstream media and popular social media platforms did.

2. Tiktok's earning scheme became a source of income for many.

On the 2nd point, someone I know lost a longtime financial parasite during COVID when thenparasite caught traction locally as a vax denier and COVID conspiracy theorist. This person is the sort of uneducated lowlife that would have been passed out on a regular on a sticky table in a ketchass bar, but as long as they cussing out Terry, Fauci and Bill Gates, they pulling in followers and tiktok cash. But I digress.

I think it's likely that tiktok isn't going anywhere. Trump will "save the day," and people will rejoice and his approval rating will benefit from it. Somewhere down the line, people will notice subtle changes in tiktok similar to replacement earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: some people hover a millimeter off the ground, four leaf clovers are commonplace and there's no dolphins.

zoom rader · Postby **zoom rader** » January 19th, 2025, 10:23 am

PNM more dangerous than Tic tok

paid_influencer · Postby **paid_influencer** » January 19th, 2025, 1:21 pm

tictok still working locally? available on the local google and apple app stores?

bluefete · Postby **bluefete** » January 19th, 2025, 1:22 pm

paid_influencer wrote:tictok still working locally? available on the local google and apple app stores?

Yes.

redmanjp · Postby **redmanjp** » January 19th, 2025, 2:28 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:The day has come 20250119_011140.jpg

Is this local?

Postby **Duane 3NE 2NR** » January 19th, 2025, 2:39 pm

Dizzy28 · Postby **Dizzy28** » January 19th, 2025, 4:05 pm

redmanjp wrote:
Dizzy28 wrote:The day has come 20250119_011140.jpg

Is this local?

Us...they are the ones that have the issue with Byte Dance

hover11 · Postby **hover11** » January 19th, 2025, 4:13 pm

The fact that ppl let an app have the world in a chokehold like this just shows how much we’ve sank as a society

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redmanjp · Postby **redmanjp** » January 19th, 2025, 4:47 pm

Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:cbe019ff-b697-4c50-9427-b1a30d4b5ac3.jpg

Yup that was quick. Tiktokers might become Trump supporters now :lol:

On the other hand the brain rot will continue. It applies to all social media apps but TT is the worst.

paid_influencer · Postby **paid_influencer** » January 19th, 2025, 5:00 pm

yea i delete tictok. too much rudeness on there

Les Bain · Postby **Les Bain** » January 19th, 2025, 5:48 pm

hover11 wrote:The fact that ppl let an app have the world in a chokehold like this just shows how much we’ve sank as a society

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If only more people had this perspective.

Real sad how internet culture went from providing knowledge at our fingertips and enabling communication at an unprecedented degree, to a bunch of mental children inhaling misinformation wholesale, braying about meme wars.

Dizzy28 · Postby **Dizzy28** » January 19th, 2025, 5:55 pm

I thinks it's worth reiterating that TT admitted to using the app to spy on US based journalists and lied about it when first approached with the allegations.

This is how China has won the great power game without firing a bullet.

Postby **Duane 3NE 2NR** » January 19th, 2025, 6:44 pm

paid_influencer · Postby **paid_influencer** » January 19th, 2025, 6:45 pm

Trump wants 50% of tiktok

19 Jan, 2025 19:02

Trump unveils TikTok rescue plan

The US president-elect plans an executive order to reverse the app’s shutdown, proposing 50% domestic ownership
Trump unveils TikTok rescue plan

President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to issue an executive order to reverse the TikTok shutdown in the US on Sunday, just hours after the popular video app went dark for its 170 million American users.

Trump said he would seek US acquisition of a 50% stake in TikTok through a joint venture, according to a post on his social media platform.

“I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security. The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.”

“Without US approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions,” he added.

The Chinese-owned app ceased operations late Saturday and disappeared from US app stores after ByteDance, its parent company, failed to meet a January 19 deadline to sell its American operations under a federal law passed last year.

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which mandated the sale or shutdown, citing national security concerns.

ByteDance’s other apps, including video editor CapCut and social platform Lemon8, were also removed from US app stores.

As TikTok went offline, rival Chinese app RedNote emerged as the most downloaded free app on Apple’s App Store, with millions of Americans adopting the “#tiktokrefugee” hashtag as they switched platforms.

Trump’s planned executive order would give ByteDance a 90-day extension to find an approved buyer. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday, sources familiar with the matter said.

Neither the White House nor TikTok immediately responded to requests for comment.

https://www.rt.com/news/611254-trump-pr ... -reprieve/

hover11 · Postby **hover11** » January 19th, 2025, 6:47 pm

Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:
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This message screams political publicity stunt

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Postby **Duane 3NE 2NR** » January 19th, 2025, 6:48 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:
redmanjp wrote:
Dizzy28 wrote:The day has come 20250119_011140.jpg

Is this local?
Us...they are the ones that have the issue with Byte Dance

And lots of government agencies around the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok

Cantmis · Postby **Cantmis** » January 19th, 2025, 11:21 pm

China controls trump

zoom rader · Postby **zoom rader** » January 20th, 2025, 8:29 am

Cantmis wrote:China controls trump

Guess which country owes China the most $$.

But the same country complains that China is owning other countries

SuperiorMan · Postby **SuperiorMan** » January 20th, 2025, 9:38 am

Trump is a smart man.

zoom rader · Postby **zoom rader** » January 20th, 2025, 9:41 am

SuperiorMan wrote:Trump is a smart man.

He is just noise

MaxPower · Postby **MaxPower** » January 20th, 2025, 9:57 am

zoom rader wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:Trump is a smart man.
He is just noise

He won the Presidency though.

nick639v2 · Postby **nick639v2** » January 20th, 2025, 5:51 pm

Ehh better to make some noise than to have it going down the route the Libs was going.

His last term benefits to my working class friends and family and others who were heavily dependent on union negotiations were all positive.

The trickle down in the self service industry benefited a lot of the small businesses like mine with readily available and cheaper parts for me personally in the food/manufacturing side of stuff.

And even if 99% will be just talk, he has people like Vivek and Robert who might apply a 1% of change that may shake up their internal deep state a little